Petrobras has set a new production record of 40,000 b/d of oil from the Cascade and Chinook fields of the Gulf of Mexico. Cascade has three wells in operation and Chinook has two wells.

The FLNG market is poised for increased investment and activity from 2014 to 2020, with Douglas-Westwood forecasting total expenditure of $64.4 billion.

Tower Resources says the newbuild drillship Rowan Renaissance has arrived in Walvis Bay, Namibia.

Seaway Heavy Lifting has ordered Amarcon’s OCTOPUS-Onboard decision support technology for the monohull crane vessel Stanislav Yudin.

Ceona is discussing the capabilities and features of the Ceona Amazon, a large, state-of-the-art, multi-function, dynamically positioned construction vessel, at the Subsea Tieback Forum & Exhibition being held at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas.

Boa Marine Services Inc. has entered into a three-year, plus options charter agreement for the newbuild Olympic Boa, a multi-functional offshore construction vessel owned by Olympic Ship AS.

Crowley Maritime Corp. reports that its ocean class tugs and 455 series high-deck-strength barges have successfully delivered, moored, and made storm safe the Jack/St. Malo semisubmersible floating production facility in the US Gulf of Mexico.

InterMoor has successfully completed decommissioning the Innovator platform at Gomez field in the Gulf of Mexico.

Fairmount Marine has delivered the semisubmersible drilling rig ENSCO 5002 to Singapore. The rig was towed safely from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, via Cape Good Hope, to Singapore by the tug Fairmount Expedition.